# suki
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Philippines) IPA: /ˈsu.kɪʔ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tagalog suki, from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).

#### Noun

suki (plural sukis)
* (Philippines, business) a favored customer; a regular who receives preferential treatment
** 1973, William G. Davis, Social Relations in a Philippine Market: Self-interest and Subjectivity, →ISBN, page 230:Near the opposite end of the suki continuum, the "subjective" pole, are special suki.
** 2007, Isabel S. Panopio, Realidad Santico Rolda, Society & Culture, →ISBN, page 216:Frequent buyers in a particular store become the suki, so that with this kind of a relationship, the marketgoer gets an extra treat, like obtaining more tomatoes for the price of a kilo.
** 2011, Robert S. Pomeroy, Neil Andrew, Small-scale Fisheries Management, →ISBN, page 169:The suki relationship in the Philippines, a credit/marketing linkage, is often assumed to be exploitative of the fisher.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 隙(すき) (suki).

#### Noun

suki (plural sukis)
* (Japan, martial arts) An opening to the enemy; a weak spot that provides an advantage for one's opponent.
** 1959, Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, Zen and Japanese culture, page 143:This gluing is "stoppage," and every stoppage means giving an advantage to the enemy, which is a suki.
** 1997, Hiroshi Ozawa, Kendo: The Definitive Guide, →ISBN, page 20:When you receive a strike, it is because there is a suki. Your opponent draws your attention to your weak spots, and you endeavor to ensure that you do not receive a strike in the same place again.
** 2006, Kevin L. Seiler, Donald J. Seller, Karate-do, →ISBN, page 61:Often, though, a suki to the chest will cause the sword to become lodged between bone and cartilage making it very difficult to quickly remove.

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: su‧ki
* IPA: /ˈsukiʔ/ [ˈsu.kiʔ]

### Etymology 1

From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).

#### Noun

sukì
* a favored customer, a regular who receives preferential treatment
* a favorite seller or vendor

##### Derived terms

* kasuki

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sukì
* swerve; veer; turn
    Synonyms: siko, kurba, liko

##### Derived terms

* magsuki

## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).

#### Noun

suki
* a favored customer, a regular who receives preferential treatment
* a favorite seller or vendor

### Etymology 2

Compare sukol.

#### Verb

suki
* to go against; to oppose; to resist
* to disobey

## Finnish
### Verb

suki
* third-person singular past indicative of sukia

### Anagrams

* isku, kisu, kusi, uksi

## Ido
### Noun

suki
* plural of suko

## Japanese
### Romanization

suki
* Rōmaji transcription of すき

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsu.ki/
* Rhymes: -uki
* Syllabification: su‧ki

### Noun

suki
* inflection of suka:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsukiʔ/ [ˈsuː.xɪʔ]
* Rhymes: -ukiʔ
* Syllabification: su‧ki

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”), as per Chan-Yap (1980). Cognates to Ilocano suki, Pangasinan suki, Bikol Central suki, Cebuano suki, and Tausug sukiꞌ.

#### Noun

sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ) (business)
* regular and long-standing customer or client (who may receive special treatment due to patronage)
* (dialectal) regular vendor or dealer (which one buys from)

##### Alternative forms

* suke
* suque, suqui — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

##### See also

* parokyano

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ) (obsolete)
* cross-like support or prop placed inside houses
* act of propping up or shoring up (something)

##### Alternative forms

* soqui, suqui — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

##### Derived terms

* isuki
* magsuki
* sukian

##### See also

* suhay

### References

* ↑ Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 145

### Further reading

* “suki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* kusi